Name: Alkalispirochaeta alkalica Z-7491
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 14327

Type strain:

Species: Alkalispirochaeta alkalica

Strain Designation: Z-7491

Culture col. no.: DSM 8900, ATCC 700262

Strain history: <- T. Zhilina, strain Z-7491

NCBI tax ID(s): 942938 (strain), 46356 (species)

Section

Alkalispirochaeta alkalica Z-7491 is a mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from cyanobacterial mat from a warm spring in an alkaline lake.

mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	07-12-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Spirochaetota*
	Class	*Spirochaetia*
	Order	*Spirochaetales*
	Family	*Spirochaetaceae*
	Genus	*Alkalispirochaeta*
	Species	**Alkalispirochaeta alkalica**
	Full Scientific Name (PNU)	Alkalispirochaeta alkalica (Zhilina et al. 1996) Sravanthi et al. 2016

Synonym

Spirochaeta alkalica

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

ALKALIPHILIC SPIROCHAETE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 700)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe provided by DSMZ

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #3434]			growth	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #3434]	Sample type/isolated from	cyanobacterial mat from a warm spring in an alkaline lake
[Ref.: #3434]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lake Magadi
[Ref.: #3434]	Country	Kenya
[Ref.: #3434]	Country ISO 3 Code	KEN
[Ref.: #3434]	Continent	Africa
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Condition	#Alkaline	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Microbial community	#Microbial mat
#Host	#Microbial	#Bacteria

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence X93927 (>99% sequence identity) for Alkalispirochaeta from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	304
Soil Samples	26
Animal Samples	52
Plant Samples
Total Samples	382

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #3434]	S.alkalica 16S ribosomal RNA	X93927	1475	ENA	942938 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Alkalispirochaeta alkalica DSM 8900 DSM 8900	GCA_000373545	scaffold	GenBank	942938 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Spirochaeta alkalica DSM 8900	942938.3	wgs	PATRIC	942938 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Alkalispirochaeta alkalica DSM 8900	2515154091	draft	JGI IMG/M	942938 tax ID	*

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GC-content

57.1 mol%

thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 8900, ATCC 700262

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Associated Passport(s) in StrainInfo

117766, 117764

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Spirochaeta alkalica sp. nov., Spirochaeta africana sp. nov., and Spirochaeta asiatica sp. nov., alkaliphilic anaerobes from the Continental Soda Lakes in Central Asia and the East African Rift.	Zhilina TN, Zavarzin GA, Rainey F, Kevbrin VV, Kostrikina NA, Lysenko AM	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-46-1-305	1996	*
Phylogeny	Spirochaeta americana sp. nov., a new haloalkaliphilic, obligately anaerobic spirochaete isolated from soda Mono Lake in California.	Hoover RB, Pikuta EV, Bej AK, Marsic D, Whitman WB, Tang J, Krader P	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02535-0	2003	*
Phylogeny	Spirochaeta sphaeroplastigenens sp. nov., a halo-alkaliphilic, obligately anaerobic spirochaete isolated from soda lake Lonar.	Vishnuvardhan Reddy S, Aspana S, Tushar DL, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.046292-0	2012	*
Phylogeny	Spirochaeta odontotermitis sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic, cellulolytic, halotolerant, alkaliphilic spirochaete isolated from the termite Odontotermes obesus (Rambur) gut.	Sravanthi T, Tushar L, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000616	2015	*
Phylogeny	Alkalispirochaeta cellulosivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a cellulose-hydrolysing, alkaliphilic, halotolerant bacterium isolated from the gut of a wood-eating cockroach (Cryptocercus punctulatus), and reclassification of four species of Spirochaeta as new combinations within Alkalispirochaeta gen. nov.	Sravanthi T, Tushar L, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000865	2015	*

References

#3434

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 8900

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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